How can I make money from my blog?

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    beautyowlsite · Member ·

    Well yesterday I decided to switch to using WordPress instead of blogspot. But I’m not sure how I can make money using WordPress and I’m still learning how to use it. Please some help me.

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    timethief · Member ·

    See first please: Types of Blogs that are allowed and not allowed http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    Blogger initiated third party advertising is not allowed at WordPress.COM. Affiliate links are allowed on WordPress.com as long as the primary purpose of your blog is to create original content.

    Please also read: Monetize Your Site next https://en.support.wordpress.com/monetize-your-site/ also note affiliate linking section https://en.support.wordpress.com/monetize-your-site/#affiliate-linking in that support doc.

    The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains that have enough traffic to qualify for acceptance into the plan.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
    http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/
    https://wordads.co/faq/

    This guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform if the limitations here at WordPress.COM do not suit you: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com

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    imarinablog · Member ·

    Hi!

    I read that link about the affiliate links and I’ve seen it before. What it doesn’t actually say is how to set them up. I tried previously but the way to do it at to add a plug in and WordPress. COM apparently doesn’t support it. How can I get around that?

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    timethief · Member ·

    If you are not adept at coding then create a draft post or page that you will later delete and do the link creation in it. After you use the Visual editor click into the HTML editor and copy and paste the content into a text widget.

    See the guide for creating links in posts and pages: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

    This is the general link model:

    <a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>

    This is the visual result – it’s not actually linked here in the forum.
    Highlighted anchor text here

    1. Enter the relevant descriptive anchor text you want to link to first. Note that “here” is not a good choice. Use relevant anchor text to link to. Such as the dynamic category page titles in your case.

    2. Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text. (If you don’t highlight the anchor text the chain icon will remain grayed out and not be usable.)

    3. Next, click the chain icon in the editor and proceed to create the link.

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